Nine Lives Of An Alaska Bush Pilot

by Kenneth Eichner, Robin Taylor (Editor), Suzanne Eichner (Editor)

Drawn to Alaska in search of Adventure in 1938, Ken Eichner found himself scratching out a living on the wooden streets of Ketchikan. Enraptured with aviation, Eichner soon followed his heart again, and scraped together the money for flying lessons. The result was one of Alaska's best-known rescue pilots, famous for taking a helicopter wherever it needed to go to save lives, often at the risk of his own. (352 pages, 4 maps, 128 photographs.)

Genres: Aviation, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2002

Reviews

[Van Reese · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn’t the kind of book that grabs you and is filled with spills and thrills and corkscrew twists, but it is an interesting memoir about one of the great Alaskan bush pilots who had a great impact on flying in dangerous conditions in the wild frontiers of Alaska. If this is the kind of thing that interests you, you will enjoy reading this book. There is also a fair amount of Alaskan history here. Now that I think about it, there actually are a lot of spills in this book. Many turned out fine, but some did not.

[HK · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute page-turner.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

The plain, straight-forward and humble writing style of this memoir is a real delight.